No - need to exercise cost control with the bottom half of your roster in order to field a perennial contender.

Paxton was a great LS and he carried his weight, but I wouldn't characterize him as one of our "key players". If he were, we would have never let him go to FA. Clearly Denver is offering him more than we were willing to spend, and he's just a casualty of how we do business. Good luck to him, and we move on.

Personally, I would be thrilled if we got a LS who could actually contribute as a backup at a position, saving a roster spot.

No - need to exercise cost control with the bottom half of your roster in order to field a perennial contender.

Paxton was a great LS and he carried his weight, but I wouldn't characterize him as one of our "key players". If he were, we would have never let him go to FA. Clearly Denver is offering him more than we were willing to spend, and he's just a casualty of how we do business. Good luck to him, and we move on.

Personally, I would be thrilled if we got a LS who could actually contribute as a backup at a position, saving a roster spot.

No - need to exercise cost control with the bottom half of your roster in order to field a perennial contender.

Paxton was a great LS and he carried his weight, but I wouldn't characterize him as one of our "key players". If he were, we would have never let him go to FA. Clearly Denver is offering him more than we were willing to spend, and he's just a casualty of how we do business. Good luck to him, and we move on.

Personally, I would be thrilled if we got a LS who could actually contribute as a backup at a position, saving a roster spot.

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I am pretty sure that most teams have dedicated long snappers. And even if they could contibute, they are so far down the depth chart, that they won't see the field. Why? Because the art of longsnapping is just that. An art. If you lose that player, its unlikely that you have someone as skilled in doing it on the roster to replace them. Look what happened in 2004. The Pats lost Paxton. Then lost the guy they brought in. Then they had to get Brian Kinchen to long snap for them. And I think Kinchen had been out of football for the better part of 2 years.

For years Paxton has been reliable but for years I've also been hoping the Pats can get a true center/guard that handle that duty. It frees up a roster spot that Paxton held hostage. Time to read up on this year's deep crop of centers.